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7 Bright futures
Teacher’s notes

Summary
This DVD programme could be used as support to materials in Unit 11 of the Student’s Book, as an
introduction or extension to the exercises on future forms on page 113. In the programme we travel to
Farnborough College of Higher Education to see seven college students talking about their future plans.

Language focus Words mentioned (in order heard): business,

IT, producer, lawyer, editor, hairdresser
Vocabulary connected with jobs and work
Future forms
4 Ask the students to match the statements with
the pictures of the speakers. Don’t give the
Background information answers at this stage.

Farnborough College is in the south-east of England.
It takes students from the age of 16 and offers
vocational training – training aimed at preparing
them for a job. In a university, the focus is more
academic and the development of general learning
skills is encouraged.
According to the UK’s Office of National Statistics,
the most common job is that of sales assistant, so
Napoleon was right when he said contemptuously
that England is a ‘nation of shopkeepers’.
Procedure
Before you watch
1 Ask the students to complete the puzzle. Once
completed, the puzzle reveals the word manager.
a) mechanic f) lawyer
b) producer g) designer
c) plumber h) writer
d) hairdresser i) editor
e) business j) IT
2 Ask the students to work in pairs and discuss the
questions. Question b) is light-hearted; guesses
can only be made from the students’ appearance.
a) 3    b) 7    c) 5    d) 1    d) 2    e) 6    f) 4
5 Ask the students to complete the sentences
using words from the programme. Ask them to
compare their ideas in pairs but don’t give the
answers at this stage.
a) pursue / IT f) dealing / issues
b) have g) abroad
c) start / looking h) run
d) gain / experience / get i) get / settle / down
e) owning / chain j) world-renowned
6 Ask the students to watch and check their
answers to Exercises 4 and 5. You may need to
pause the DVD.
After you watch
7 Ask the students to choose the best ending for
each sentence and then to work with a partner
to compare answers.
a) 8    b) 9    c) 10    d) 3    e) 6    f) 1   
g) 2    h) 4    i) 5    j) 7

While you watch

3 Ask the students to watch the programme, check
the predictions they made in Exercise 2 and tick
the words from Exercise 1 when they hear them.
Play the programme.
8 Check the answers and then ask the students to
discuss whether any of the statements are true
for them.
9 Allow students time to discuss the questions in
groups then get feedback from the class.

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7 Bright futures
DVD script (04:26)
(I = Interviewer; A = Azmar; E = Emma;
P = Philip; M = Marco; B = Becky; N = Nick;
R = Rosaria)
I: What are you going to do when you first leave
college?
A: Er, I’m thinking of going to, er, another university
to pursue my career in business and IT.
I: What are your career plans?
A: Well, erm, I want to ... I want to go into the IT
industry, erm, as after I graduate, erm ... that’s
about it.
I: What do you think you’ll be doing in five years’
time?
A: Hope to be married, have a few children and, er,
be working.
I: Where do you think you’ll be living?
A: Erm, in London.
I: What are you going to do when you first leave
college?
E: When I first leave college I shall be going away
for a month travelling, erm, but when I get back I
will hopefully, erm, start looking for a job within
the media industry.
I: What are your career plans?
E: Er, my career plans are to gain a lot of relevant
experience and then try and get into either
making, er, documentaries or news reporting
and continue in that way.
I: What do you think you’ll be doing in five years’
time?
E: Erm, in five years’ time I hope to be a successful
TV producer.
I: Where do you think you’ll be living?
E: Er, in the heart of London – I’ll be living –
because that’s where the jobs will be.
I: What are you going to do when you first leave
college?
P: When I leave college I’d like to, erm, go and
work in a shop down the High Street.
M: Erm, I want to go and be a clerk in a law firm.
I: What are your career plans?
P: Erm, I hope to go up through, er, working in a
shop to management and eventually own it.
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M: Hopefully I’ll be a lawyer.
I: What do you think you’ll be doing in five years’
time?
P: In five years’ time I’d like to be, er, managing or
owning a successful chain of shops.
M: Erm, I would like to be working abroad,
internationally, and, erm, dealing with, er, major
law issues.
I: Where do you think you’ll be living?
P: I think I will be probably be ... be living, erm, in,
er, around about London where the business is.
M: Er, I probably will be living in, er, the United
States.
I: What are you going to do when you first leave
college?
B: I’m going to go abroad to America for a few
months and then come back to England and work.
I: What are your career plans?
B: I think I’ll work in a salon for a couple of years
and then I’ll run my own business.
I: What do you think you’ll be doing in five years’
time?
B: I hope I will have travelled and I think I’ll be
running my own beauty salon.
I: Where do you think you’ll be living?
B: I ... I will be living in England in around the
London sort of area.
I: What are you going to do when you first leave
college?
N: I’m going to look to travel for a few months,
er, just to get some experience you know of the
world and, I mean I don’t want to settle down
to work, erm, ’cause I want to, you know, have
some fun first.
I: What are your career plans?
N: I, erm, want to go into, er, news editing.
I: What do you think you’ll be doing in five years’
time?
N: I imagine myself as a freelance editor, er,
working for big major news organisations.
I: Where do you think you’ll be living?
N: I imagine living in the central ... central London.
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 I: What are you going to do when you first leave
college?
R: When I leave college I’m going to sleep.
I: What are your career plans?
R: My career plans are to open a chain of
hairdressing shops and become a world-
renowned hairdresser.
I: What do you think you’ll be doing in five years’
time?
R: I’ll be the most well-known hairdresser in the
world.

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